# Nexus keep old components in blob store

**URL:** <https://community.sonatype.com/t/nexus-keep-old-components-in-blob-store/13131>\
**Category:** Sonatype Nexus Repository\
**Tags:** help, nexus-repository, blob-store, cleanup\
**Created:** [August 27, 2024, 4:10pm UTC](https://community.sonatype.com/t/nexus-keep-old-components-in-blob-store/13131 "2024-08-27T16:10:20Z")\
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**Post date:** [August 27, 2024, 4:10pm UTC](https://community.sonatype.com/t/nexus-keep-old-components-in-blob-store/13131/1 "2024-08-27T16:10:21Z")

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The clean up tasks and compact blob are successfully executing daily. The clean up policy remove components published over 3 days ago, but there are a lots of components created in december 2023 that policy ignores and still occupies space in the disk.  
How can I delete these “losts” components?

blob files example:  
#2023-12-11 23:20:49,918-0300  
#Mon Dec 11 23:20:49 BRT 2023  
@BlobStore.created-by=xxxx  
size=5573  
@Bucket.repo-name=maven-xx-snapshots  
creationTime=1702347649917  
@BlobStore.created-by-ip=xxxx  
@BlobStore.content-type=application/xml  
@BlobStore.blob-name=xxxxxxxxxx1.20.0-20231212.022047-25256.pom  
sha1=e1941e005509e64631215e4a78afba77efe70e51

#2023-12-15 10:38:51,729-0300  
#Fri Dec 15 10:38:51 BRT 2023  
deletedDateTime=1702647531729  
deleted=true  
@BlobStore.created-by=xxxx  
creationTime=1702647349847  
@BlobStore.created-by-ip=xxxxxx  
@BlobStore.content-type=text/plain  
sha1=ae3b292b5e7da0ceb4feb0ad2f768d63c5d70ad2  
@BlobStore.blob-name=xxxxxx/maven-metadata.xml.sha1  
deletedReason=Updating asset AttachedEntityId{asset-\>#55:144329}  
@Bucket.repo-name=maven-xxxx-snapshots  
size=40

Thanks